ut
\yt\
The verdict
“ut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,597) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,597
- frequency rank, French
- 44,794
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - La première note de l’échelle des sons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ut · ut · French
ut · rank #20,597 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,597
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,794
- PHOTO-FINISH underground
Nearest frequency peer: underground (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ut”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- turn
turn
79,407 corpus weight
- ultimatum
ultimatum
79,406 corpus weight
- underground
underground
79,405 corpus weight
- ut
ut
79,404 corpus weight
- vacant
vacant
79,403 corpus weight
- vega
vega
79,402 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ut” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yt\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ut” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ut is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "ux", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \yt\. Frequency #20,597 among 44,794 “U” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ut has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "ux", "UTC", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ut, spelled U-T.
Definition
- 1La première note de l’échelle des sons.
- 2Signe qui représente cette première note.
- 3Clef d’ut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La clef d’ut.
La gamme d’ut.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.